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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When was the film, Mirror, released?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1965.
2. What is the title of Chapter VIII?
(a) The Sacrifice.
(b) Stalker.
(c) The Mirror.
(d) After Nostalgia.
3. Tarkovsky claims in Chapter VI that the yardsticks by which art is distinguished from non-art are what?
(a) Impossible to demonstrate.
(b) Not short.
(c) Invisible.
(d) Not long.
4. Where was The Sacrifice filmed?
(a) France.
(b) Italy.
(c) Spain.
(d) Sweden.
5. Tarkovsky seriously considered quitting directing after what film?
(a) Ivan's Childhood.
(b) The Sacrifice.
(c) Stalker.
(d) The Mirror.
Short Answer Questions
1. What Latin term does Tarkovsky use to refer to the role of the director as a representative of the masses?
2. What is the title of Chapter VII?
3. In order to be what, does Tarkovsky write, "you simply have to be so, without asking permission of anybody"?
4. What Soviet filmmaker and film theorist is arguably the very first film theorist, as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory?
5. Whose dictum states: "in every sense, art is made for you, the people"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Tarkovsky describe the use of symbolism in his films?
2. Describe Tarkovsky's film, Nostalgia. Where and when was it filmed?
3. What is the all-powerful factor of film to Tarkovsky? Why?
4. How does Tarkovsky describe the difference between painting and cinema in Chapter VII?
5. When was, The Sacrifice, conceived of? What drew Tarkovsky to this story?
6. What makes the cinema different than other art forms, according to Tarkovsky?
7. How is the artist "at odds with society," as Tarkovsky states in Chapter VII?
8. What does Tarkovsky mean by "immediate" art forms in Chapter VII?
9. What is Tarkovsky's response to "how can the artist even begin to make films to please others"?
10. What kept Tarkovsky from quitting the cinema after Mirror?
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